Posted on 02/12/2024 8:54:45 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A friend told me over the weekend that he sat in on one of his son’s “remote learning” days during the glorified flu lockdown. He sat through three hours of absolute nonsense and then reached over and shut off his son’s computer. His kid freaked out and said he’d get a worse grade because they are graded on being logged on. My friend told him that it didn’t matter because they were going to start homeschooling the next day.
Climate Change Deniers, we know it will never snow in New York again because of man made global warming.
A black man complaining about 8 inches?
Or before “remote”
Well, joking about Taylor Swift Day, but no not joking about the school closure.
Sounds like so much fun.
We had snow days, but, not enough snow for sledding...but, a fun day of snowmen and snowball fights. Then, it would all melt, the next day!
We usually had to add on an extra day, at the end of our school year.
And....no one (not the Mayor, not the school superintendent, etc.) called off school days before...we had to wait for the local news to alert us, like you, that morning. They’d announce EARLY ... before Capt Kanagaroo, even.
🤣 🤮
> He [a student] sat through three hours of absolute nonsense… <
Fortunately, I was an able to retire before remote learning became a thing. I taught high school chemistry and physics. I really don’t know how I could teach those subjects remotely, and still be effective.
Better that a student should log in, then go through a review/learn computer program on the subject. Then if the student gets stuck or has a question, the teacher is summoned and gives a deeper explanation.
Some college courses are taught that way now.
As a retired NYC public school teacher, I'll tell you what ever--it would have to be a blizzard with over a foot of snow and whiteouts, etc. before they would close NYC schools. I remember very well making my way to school at great peril, driving over glazed ice and sliding all over the place. Only to arrive and see only about 25% of the students in attendance. They were all ushered to the auditorium and shown a movie. SO much learning going on! And sometimes the snowplows buried my car and it was impossible to dig it out. So I had to take up to 3 buses to make it to school, standing out on mountains of ice and snow, freezing while waiting for the much-delayed buses. Only to find, again, the same scenario of 25% attendance and movies being shown. There was no academic activity going on, with 75% of the kids absent.
My brother teaches high school. He’s mostly CAD type stuff. During the lockdowns, he had to teach remotely. He had two monitors, one was the subject matter, which was computer aided design work, which he had to pay attention to as he was teaching. The other was camera images of 25-30 students in little boxes.
The subject matter was easy to him as he’d been teaching it for decades. However, at the school, they were using very expensive, high powered expensive software licensed for use in the school on school owned computers only. I think it’s AutoCAD, which many design shops use. Because they couldn’t use school computers, he was teaching with off the shelf, open source free software which he was learning himself just before teaching it.
Wow, and the administration was surprised when one of the students was showing porn to the rest of the class through his camera and my brother didn’t see it. He got in almost as much trouble as the student did. (He was turned in by the other students)
What a freaking joke.
As I have mentioned elsewhere, I too taught in a city school (not NYC). And like you, I had to fight past snowdrifts to make it to work only to see most students absent. That was not always the safest thing, but it was part of the job.
That’s not my beef. My beef is how the new wave wiz-kid principals reacted.
The old-time principals would put notes on our school mailboxes the day after a bad snow. “Thank you for coming in yesterday. I know traveling was difficult.”
The new wiz-kid principals would also put notes on our school mailboxes the day after a bad snow. “This is a reminder that you will be docked a half-day pay for coming in late. Snow is no excuse.”
The interesting thing is that those wiz-kids often did not show up at all on bad travel days. Then they wondered why staff morale was so low.
Education is remote probably because they will be storing illegals in schools.
Then I was off to boarding school in Pa. and they never closed; the day student were just SOL.
Are you ready for tonight's "Blizzard"?
I'm praying that we don't lose power.
I have a feeling the storm won’t be quite as bad as they make it out to be!
Why we are supposed to get more snow than Litchfield, I don't understand. And Hartford is supposed to get the most?
Most of Massachusetts may get nothing at all!
And these are the same people predicting climate change!
So I am praying that this one is the same as ALL of the other one, that they all went hysterical over, this winter.
Supposedly NYC, now won't get much at all, so just HOW are WE going to get almost a foot?
When I was growing up, they would never cancel school (or anything else) based on a forecast.
They would wait until 5 or 6 am on the day of the storm and make a decision. Many times, we'd go to school and get dismissed at noon if the storm was obviously moving in. But if it wasn't snowing by 6am - we had school!
My great grandmother had lived through the GREAT BLIZZARD OF 1888, so I know family stories about what Manhattan was like during that one and the MUSEUM OF NYC used to have a diorama of that blizzard, that captivated my imagination.
But I lived through the Blizzard of 1947 ( which was supposedly almost as bad as the 1888 one ), and though I was a very tiny child, I still have VERY vivid memories of that one.
And I don't remember anyone being hysterical about blizzards, until lately. The CLIMATE LOONS go into hysterics at the drop of a hat now.
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